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PLANTING AND CARE OF ORNAMENTALS 
Japan Quince can be grown in the same way and can be sheared with impunity. 
Japanese Barberry is a graceful-growing shrub, but should not be planted 
where a sheared hedge is desired, as it does not take readily to clipping. However, 
it forms a good low fence, as its numerous thorns will prevent children and dogs 
from running through it, although the thorns are not strong enough to tear clothing. 
Very attractive boundary hedges can be made from Spirea Van Houttei, and 
Crimson llambler and Dorothy Perkins Roses. The canes should be cut back 
within three or four feet of the ground, to prevent their trailing. The Rugosa and 
Conrad F. Meyer can also be used to verj' good advantage. 
All of the tall-growing shrubs form very attractive hedges. These should be 
set a foot or one and a half feet apart, and low-growing ones, such as Barberry, 
one foot apart. 
CLIMBING VINES 
Boston Set the plants as deep as they stood in the nursery. Protect the top 
Ivy the first winter after planting, with a inulch of leaves or straw. When 
once estabUshed, it is very hardy. It will chmb and cling to wood, brick, rock, 
etc., anything except an iron support, which gets hot during the summer. 
Japanese Dig a hole that will take the roots without crowding. Set the crown an 
Clematis inch below the surface. Clematis should have a rigid support. If a 
string or wire is used, it allows the wind to blow the plant about, injuring it. 
Cut out all of the weak growth and during the winter prune the remainder heavily 
if you want the most bloom. Clematis thrives best when well fertilized and 
watered during dry weather. 
Honeysuckle Hall's Honeysuckle will thrive on all soils and under nearly all 
conditions. Set the vines as deep as they stood in the nursery. Make the hole 
large enough to take the roots without crowding. 
It is especially good for verandas, houses, pillars, etc., as the wire netting 
or lattice it needs to giow on may be loosened and laid flat on the ground while 
the woodwork is painted. 
It is one of the few vines that thrive at the seashore and will bloom all summer 
except during the hot, dry weather. 
It makes an attractive cover for a fence, where it should be set every six feet. 
It can also be used to cover steep banks and unsightly places too shady foi 
other plants. For this purpose, set the plants four feet apart each way. The 
vines will spread in all directions and take root, forming new plants, which make 
a solid, matted covering for the ground. 
It will thrive in spite of neglect; but, to secure best results, the ground si ould 
be cultivated and given a dressing of manure during the winter, when tte older, 
weaker vines should be cut out. 
Wistaria Set the plant as deep as it stood in the nursery. Keep it hoed the first 
summer, but after that do not fertilize or attempt to force its growth. It takes 
several years to come into blooming, and even longer if the growth is forced. The 
vine should have a strong, permanent support, for it is long-lived and eventually 
becomes very heavy. It naturally produces rugged, twisted branches, which are 
very effective. Where it is desired to cover the entire surface of a building or arbor, 
it is necessary to fasten the leaders, keeping them taut, and to train some of the 
outside branches. After the vine reaches the blooming age, it may be made to 
produce enormous quantities of flowers by cutting back the new growth each 
year to spurs. 
To cover a tree, plant either the Wistaria or the Trumpet Vine quite a dis- 
tance from the trunk of the tree, and put several yards of the stem under ground. 
Trumpet Vine Set the plants as deep as they stood in the nursery. Tliey prefer 
very fertile soil. The ground should be fertilized every winter. E.specially fine 
for covering fock walls and fences, to which it clings and climbs. Also used in 
covering buildings. 
Climbing Roses These should be planted as described under "Roses." The only 
pruning necessary is to cut out the old, weakened canes. 
